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Background Canadian Arctic Sovereignty prepared by staff of the Parliamentary Information and Research Service (PIRS) of the Library of Parliament
David Jones: Canada’s claim to the Northwest Passage
More on the Arctic 
(RCI) Campaigning in the Canadian territory of Nunavut on Saturday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised that if his Conservative Party is re-elected on October 14, […]

More on Water and on Wednesday-Night.com     
Thirst a powerful slide show on water
Water: A finite resource (with pictures and graphs)
Although water covers 75 percent of the world’s surface, 97.5 percent of the earth’s water is salt water; of the remaining 2.5 percent, most is locked away as groundwater or in glaciers.
Water for Food, […]

Where is money safe today? Where should the investor be? Cash? What currency? To whom can you turn for advice that is not tinged with self-interest? What institution can you trust? We have heard that even proverbial Swiss banks may not be that safe (ex.UBS) …. One Wednesday Nighter suggests that we should start each […]

Background on UN Convention of Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
Real Climate - Climate science from climate scientists Arctic & Antarctic

Photograph: Louise Murray/Science Photo Library
Arctic Ice Retreat May Be Harbinger of Climate Change
By Alex Morales
Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) — The shrinking of Arctic sea ice to its second-smallest size on record signals greater changes in the […]

New battle over Arctic oil plans
(BBC) The grey waters of the Arctic Ocean are the scene for a new battle over plans for a huge expansion in the drilling of oil and gas far beyond the Alaskan shore.
The governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, in her speech accepting her nomination as Republican Party candidate for vice-president […]

We are still recovering from two events last Wednesday Night. Beryl Wajsman’s inimitable entry for the Just For Laughs Festival – his account of the fallout from the disaster at St Catherine and Peel and the bumbling attempts of assorted authorities to attack the problem left us rocking with laughter, while decrying the attitude best […]

(RCI) CANADA WILL HOLD EARLY FEDERAL ELECTION
Canadians will vote in an early election on October 14.  On Sunday morning, Prime Minister Stephen Harper met Governor General Michaelle Jean, the representative of Canada’s head of state, Queen Elizabeth, to request the dissolution of parliament.  Mr. Harper’s bid to strengthen his minority government comes at a time […]

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Toxic chemicals and Environment on wednesday-night.com

 
We also recommend Andrew Coyne’s column If not Kyoto, what? of May 24, 2006. We haven’t advanced a whole lot since then.
5 September
Canada Opposition Liberals Adjust Carbon Tax Plan
(Reuters/Planet Ark) WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Canada’s opposition Liberal Party responded to criticism of its carbon tax plan on […]

Welcome home to all the summer’s happy wanderers. We have missed you - and you have missed some fascinating evenings - and look forward to catching up with your news, along with your thoughts on The News as it unfolds.
Speaking of unfolding,-  or more accurately, unravelling -, the Republican Convention will surely go down in […]

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Myanmar News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
An aerial view of a town in the southern Irrawaddy Delta region of Myanmar that was devastated by the cyclone More Photos
BURMA - […]